Agriculture Abundant agricultural land, most of it fertile, across the country. Also abundant fresh water sources in at least 80 percent of the country.

Agriculture dominates the economy, unprocessed and semi-processed produce such as fish, flowers, coffee and vegetables leading in exports.

Production volumes of edible crops (different from beverages like tea, coffee, sugar and others like flowers), not enough to consistently meet international demand.Ankole, particularly the area between Mbarara and Bushenyi, now the breadbasket of the country for the staple banana (matooke) crop and milk.Business Most companies operating in Uganda by a global measure would be defined as small businesses, including several major telecoms companies. Almost all major national investments and construction and rehabilitation projects are now in the hands of foreigners or foreign-owned companies. Low-cost Chinese merchandise forms the bulk of trade in the country. The credit card payment system is next to non-existent. Easiest investment for many in recent years is in hotels, guest houses, inns and lodges.

Commercial banks’ lending attitude now more relaxed, clients encouraged to take out loans but often against forbidding interest rates.

Mobile phone money transfers now the backbone of national cash transactions. However, imports roughly 10:1 against exports.Communications Internet use the fastest-growing medium of communication, but advertising online still negligible. Design of mobile apps at an early, hesitant stage.

Internet speeds, despite the undersea fibre optic cable off the Mombasa coast in Kenya, still slow for wireless delivery. What is sold as 3G+ Internet is often little more than the older GPRS/EDGE.

4G/LTE Internet recently introduced is essentially what in Europe and North America would be 3G speeds.

The media, even the private newspapers and radio and television stations, still report and analyse the news from the government point of view as would government-owned media, and a view of government as the centre of national life.

Radio, the largest media form, now at a plateau. Television broadcasting growing in recent years, although more in form than in substance and in creation of original content.

Average circulation of print newspapers and magazines little changed and still as low as during the 1990s, despite the increased population and education levels.

Data collection, archiving and record keeping is still historically weak across the country.Creative industries Local music industry dominated by Kampala-based and Luganda language songs. Data on actual sales of cassette tapes and compact discs uncertain, but most artistes making their money through live concert performances and corporate endorsements.

Crafts and art market limited to cottage efforts and European and Asian tourists, the main clientele. Book industry still very weak, with not more than an approximate 120 new titles published in the country per year.Society and the labour force National attitude is largely cynical; few long-term plans are in place in any area of public life. Very little commitment to the broad, abstract good at work and in political life.

Education system still largely the chalk-and-blackboard grammar kind of the 1970s, but basic computer skills now common in many urban schools.

Major shortage of skilled service sector workers. Customer care and after sales service extremely poor across the country and across the board in all sectors of this, the extremely uncompetitive and inefficient Ugandan economy.

Ugandan workforce, in general, well short of the standard of international quality control and best practices.